Quotes About Harmony

There is no ultimate satisfaction in the cultivation of one element of human nature at the expense of all the others, nor in viewing all the world as raw material for the magnificence of one's own ego.

We cannot admire a social system which allows no scope for individual achievement, and we cannot approve one in which excessive individualism makes the social system unstable.

La vida buena está inspirada por el amor y guiada por el conocimiento. El conocimiento y el amor son siempre susceptibles de ampliación; por lo tanto, por buena que sea una vida, se puede imaginar una vida mejor. Ni el conocimiento sin amor, ni el amor sin conocimiento, pueden producir una buena vida.

When I said that the good life consists of love guided by knowledge, the desire which prompted me was the desire to live such a life as far as possible, and to see others living it; and the logical content of the statement is that, in a community where men live in this way, more desires will be satisfied than in one where there is less love or less knowledge.

Philosophic contemplation does not, in its widest survey, divide the universe into two hostile camps -- friends and foes, helpful and hostile, good and bad -- it views the whole impartially.

Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it. And to some degree these characteristics exist in almost every environment.

No man need fear that by making himself rational he will make his life dull. On the contrary, since rationality consists in the main of internal harmony, the man who achieves it is freer in his contemplation of the world and in the use of his energies to achieve external purposes that is the man who is perpetually hampered by inward conflicts. Nothing is so dull as to be encased in self, nothing so exhilarating as to have attention and energy directed outwards.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

Görülmesi en kolay ÅŸey ne çok büyük, ne çok küçük, ne çok uzak ne çok yak?n, ne çok karma??k, ne ne de çok basit oland?r.

Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

Si existiese en el mundo de hoy un número tan grande de gente que deseara su propia felicidad más de lo que desean la infelicidad del resto, tendríamos el paraíso en unos pocos años

How delicious an instrument is woman, when artfully played upon; how capable is she of producing the most exquisite harmonies, or executing the most complicated variations of love, and of giving the most Divine of erotic pleasures. —Ananga Ranga

Take yer happiness, try to harm none, and let no man, even the one ye love, dominate ye. 'Tis my rule of life now.

Toombo. Look at the roundness of your belly. Look at the heaviness of your legs!' Toombo looks. 'God makes fat birds and small birds, trees that are wide and trees that are thin, like wattle. He makes big kernels and little kernels. I am a big kernel. One does not argue with God.' The theosophism defeats Otieno;

Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation

You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was perfected. James 2:22

The result of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever. Isaiah 32:17

we are the bride of the Prince of Peace!

May they be made completely one, so the world may know You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me. John 17:23

The key to peace is authority—peace is the fruit of an obedient, righteous life.

Let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called in one body, control your hearts. Colossians 3:15

Republicans - well, we're all part of the same family. We need to have some good disagreements with each other; we need to debate, but in the end, it's all about uniting, not dividing.

I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.

Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'